Grafana Labs Aligns with Elastic on Observability
Elastic and Grafana Labs have allied to create a plugin through which DevOps teams that are employing Elasticsearch within a DevOps workflow will be able to invoke a monitoring platform, based on Prometheus, that is managed by Grafana Labs. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said both companies are dedicating engineering resources to building and maintaining […]
LogDNA Adds Usage Quota Tools to Help Control Costs
LogDNA announced today it will enable IT teams to apply usage quotas to help rein in log management costs. Tucker Callaway, CEO, LogDNA, said as applications become more complex – thanks, in part, to the rise of microservices – the amount of log data that a DevOps team can collect has significantly increased. IT teams […]
Datadog to Meld Observability and DevSecOps
Datadog is planning to expand the scope of the security and observability services it provides following the acquisitions of Sqreen, an application security platform provider, and Timber Technologies, a provider of a tool, called Vector, for collecting and normalizing log data. Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Vector makes it […]
SolarWinds Unveils Revamped APM Platform
SolarWinds is unifying its various application performance management (APM) tools within a single suite accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Denny LeCompte, senior vice president for products at SolarWinds, said the APM Integrated Experience offering combines the company’s AppOptics, Loggly and Pingdom tools to collect metrics, traces and logs along with real user monitoring capabilities […]
Application Security and Continuous Observability with DeepFactor
Today’s modern applications are becoming increasingly complex and released more frequently than ever before, therefore increasing security, privacy and compliance risks. How do you identify the security and compliance risks hidden in your application before you deploy it to production? Continuous observability enables DevSecOps teams to observe millions of application telemetry events and find runtime […]
AppDynamics Survey Reveals High IT Stress
A global survey published today by AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco, suggests the last year took a substantial toll on IT teams at a time when many organizations either launched or accelerated digital business transformation initiatives. The survey, of 1,050 IT professionals in organizations with revenue of more than $500 million, finds organizations, on average, […]
Grafana Labs Adds On-Premises Observability Platform
Grafana Labs announced today the availability of a unified Grafana Enterprise Stack that enables IT teams to deploy a curated observability platform, based on open source tools such as Prometheus, in their own on-premises IT environment. Tom Wilkie, vice president of product for Grafana Labs, said Grafana Enterprise Stack, in addition to providing a version […]
Dynatrace Extends Reach of Observability Platform
Dynatrace this week updated its observability and software intelligence platform as part of an effort to expand its reach across modern enterprise IT environments. Announced at the online Dynatrace Perform 2021 conference, the company’s namesake platform can now capture logs from Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift as well as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform […]
New Relic Adds Visualization Tool to Observability Platform
New Relic announced today it has added a visualization tool, dubbed New Relic Explorer, to make it simpler for IT professionals to discover the root cause of issues that adversely affect application performance. Buddy Brewer, global vice president and field CTO for the Americas, New Relic, said the goal is to make it simpler for […]
AWS Taps Grafana Labs to Launch Managed Observability Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS), in collaboration with Grafana Labs, has added a preview of managed service based on the Grafana observability platform to its portfolio of tools for managing cloud applications and infrastructure. The Grafana platform is based on an implementation of the open source Prometheus monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the […]
Sentry Extends Application Performance Monitoring Tool
Sentry this week announced it has added support for applications that employ serverless computing frameworks as well as the Google Web Vitals service to its application monitoring tool. Company CEO Milin Desai said incorporating Google Web Vitals metrics into Sentry Performance Monitoring will become crucial as Google makes good on a pledge to rank websites […]
IBM Acquires Instana to Advance Observability Strategy
IBM this week announced it plans to acquire Instana, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform that is optimized for microservices. Robin Hernandez, vice president of hybrid cloud management and AIOps for IBM, said Instana will plug an observability gap that has emerged in IBM’s portfolio as organizations start to build and deploy […]
How to Make a Self-Healing IT Infrastructure a Reality
In 2019, enterprises worldwide reported that every hour of infrastructure downtime cost them an average of $301,000- $400,000. If a system is down for five hours, that’s $1.5 million lost—and that’s on the low end. Five hours of downtime can impact companies for months down the road. It’s in the hands of DevOps practitioners to […]
Dynatrace Adds to Observability Capabilities
Dynatrace today announced it has extended its observability capabilities via the launch of its PurePath 4 platform that adds support for the open source OpenTelemetry framework and W3C Trace Context specification for distributed tracing. In addition, the company is adding support for service meshes and serverless computing frameworks running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft […]
Scalyr Adds Hindsight Service to IT Analytics Portfolio
Scalyr has moved to reduce the cost of observability by enabling DevOps teams to retain log and event data in S3-compatible object storage systems than use a pay-per-TB-scanned pricing model to interrogate that data. Company CEO Christine Heckart said the Scalyr Hindsight service will make it possible for IT teams to more cost-effectively store historical […]
Logz.io Embraces Jaeger for Distributed Tracing
Logz.io announced at its online ScaleUp! 2020 conference announced today it has added support for open source Jaeger distributed tracing software to its observability platform based on a curated instance of open source Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) software. Logz.io CTO Jonah Kowall said support for Jaeger extends the reach of the open source platform […]
Algorithmia Allies With Datadog on MLOps Observability
Algorithmia today launched a performance monitoring for machine learning (ML) model that tracks algorithm inference and operations metrics generated by the enterprise edition of its namesake platform for building these models. Company CEO Diego Oppenheimer said Algorithmia Insights provides a level of observability into ML models that DevOps teams have come to expect from applications. […]
The Value of OpenTelemetry in Observability
As infrastructure becomes more complex, the quest for better observability continues. With increased containerization, third-party applications and generally increased network complexity, it becomes difficult for organizations to track issues of stability and performance. But OpenTelemetry can be used to improve upon observability throughout a network by enhancing and consolidating reporting throughout all applications and services. […]
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Grafana Labs Looks to Simplify Observability
Grafana Labs, at its online ObservabilityCON conference today, unveiled a distributed tracing platform dubbed Grafana Tempo that makes it possible to leverage existing object storage platforms and services to analyze traces. At the same time, Grafana Labs announced version 2.0 of Loki, which normalizes different structured, unstructured or JSON log formats in a way that […]
Cracking Production Performance Issues With Open Source Observability
I would like to share a recent case study on our organization, Logz.io, which battled a very serious performance issue, the solution for which turned out to be a small change in code but with a huge impact on all of our HTTP endpoints in our platform. Among other topics, I’ll cover: How we investigated […]
Splunk Adds Plumbr and Rigor to Observability Portfolio
Splunk this week at its online.conf20 conference revealed it has acquired Plumbr, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform, and signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rigor, a provider of synthetic monitoring and application optimization tools. Both platforms are destined to be integrated with the Splunk Observability Suite, a suite of IT management […]
Splunk Dives Deeper Into Observability
Splunk, during its online .conf20 conference today, launched the Splunk Observability Suite, which combines tools for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, digital experience monitoring, log investigation and incident response in a single offering. Kia Behnia, vice president of ITOps for Splunk, said IT teams can correlate metrics, traces and log data in real-time to go […]